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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1879
Page
1
A Va patient with long standing dyspepsia describes relief after using a remedy labeled as a medicine. The account claims he could eat anything with impunity and credits the product with restoring heart and physical vigor after sixteen years of suffering.
Train connections and schedules for Greensboro with routes to Greensboro Charlotte and Raleigh. Mentions sleeping cars without change on Nos 48 47 44 42 linking New York Atlanta Augusta and Richmond. Includes notes on reduced service and advertisements for remedies and endorsements.
A burglar breaks into an editor's room and pockets the editor's trousers with money sewn inside. He mocks the scene, but a charity twist emerges as the editor discovers the money later, suggesting a vagrant theft turned restitution. The poem preserves a tonal clash between crime and unintended generosity.
A veteran recounts a plague of unexplained deaths in a North African regiment. Corporal Lagache reveals occult influence from Bedouin contacts and a recovered religious medal ends the killings, linking fate to a moonlit encounter and a vanished watch chain.
A mixed set of dispatches recounts heroic acts at Rorke s Drift where a corporal’s quick shot may have saved Natal from a Zulu attack. It also reports on oil experiments calming seas, camel arrivals in Sonora, a New York murder case, and the death of Prince Louis Napoleon in Africa with grisly but restrained detail.
Readable snippets describe a Le Veta court case with a Chinese man questioned about God and oath. The dialogue shows miscommunication, cultural references, and the judge admitting testimony amid flustered explanations. The piece also mentions marriage causing trouble and a famine linked note.
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